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Greenberg Traurig will not be able to avoid trial in an 11-year-old attorney deceit case facing the firm in New York. A judge set a trial date for next April, after denying the firm’s bid to have more summary judgment arguments. Former hedge fund manager James Melcher, now 79, is suing Greenberg Traurig and a former shareholder, Leslie Corwin, claiming attorney deceit under Judiciary Law Section 487. Melcher claims Greenberg and Corwin colluded with their client, an adversary of Melcher, to deceive the court by presenting a “phony” contract amendment in an underlying case and then claiming the document was accidentally burned by the Greenberg client while making tea. After an Appellate Division, First Department, decision in September affirmed some limits on damages testimony, Greenberg Traurig asked Manhattan Supreme Court Justice O. Peter Sherwood for a second set of summary judgment arguments to “resolve the remaining issues” in the case. … [Read more...] about Judge Sets Trial Date in Attorney Deceit Case Against Greenberg Traurig

NEW YORK — Rep. Chris Collins, indicted on criminal insider trading charges, won't stand trial until Feb. 3, 2020. U.S. District Court Judge Vernon S. Broderick, who is presiding over the case, set the date Thursday at a hearing where Collins' legal team pushed for a 2020 trial date rather than something earlier, saying it needed more time to prepare the Clarence Republican's defense. Prosecutors had lobbied for a trial date in the spring or summer of 2019, saying they expected their side of the case would take about two weeks of trial time. The February 2020 trial date means that Collins, if he is re-elected and does not resign, will have criminal charges hanging over him for a majority of his next term. Collins faces an aggressive election challenge from Democrat Nathan McMurray, the Grand Island town supervisor. Broderick's setting of the trial date highlighted an hourlong hearing in the Collins case, the first since the lawmaker's arrest in August. Collins faces charges of … [Read more...] about Judge sets trial date for Collins in February 2020

The Black ex-Minneapolis police officer who killed a white woman last July was set to stand trial after a judge ruled on Thursday there was enough evidence to proceed with the case. The move came after lawyers for Mohamed Noor tried to get third-degree murder and manslaughter charges dismissed to squash the possibility of a trial in Justine Ruszczyk Damond‘s death. RELATED: Good Luck: Black Cop Asking For Charges To Be Dismissed After Shooting White Woman Hennepin County District Judge Kathryn Quaintance scheduled Noor’s trial for April 1, 2019, the Minnesota Star-Tribune reported. Noor, who was fired from the department in March, has yet to enter a plea but his attorneys said they believe he will plead not guilty by self-defense. For the time being, he remained free on bail. His lawyers were likely going to work overtime in coming up with a defense strategy, especially considering that unlike their white counterparts, cops of color who shoot … [Read more...] about Officials Set Trial Date For Black Cop Who Shot White Woman In ‘Self Defense’